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Your Coors $$ At Work
by Jerry Sloan
The article below demonstrates the fact no matter how much the Adolph Coors Brewing Company and some members of the Coors family try to present it/themselves as a gay-friendly company its past and present actions demonstrate otherwise.
The truth is since the mid 70s, the Coors Company and Family have done irreparable damage to gay and lesbian people. Damage which the company and the family have refused to acknowledge.
While the Coors Foundation claims it now only distributes grants to Colorado civic and philanthropic organizations and the Castle Rock Foundation is allegedly cutting back on the size of grants to the FCF and other homophobic groups, to undo the damage to the gay community in the United States, the Coors Company and family would have to
COMPLETELY renounce their funding, both on personal and corporate/foundation levels of ALL anti-gay groups and then fund EVERY future lawsuit the gay community has to institute to overturn the actions of those who attack the civil rights of translesbigay people because Coors funded such organizations which provided the inspiration to move the homohaters to action.An apology would be nice too!
Legislation now moving through the Oklahoma Legislature is a perfect example of the harm caused by both the Coors Foundation and certain Coors family members funding and devoting time to the very homohating Free Congress Foundation (FCF) headed by Paul Weyrich.
In 1986 or so the FCF funded a Cuban expatriate Roman Catholic priest named Enrique Rueda to write a 500+ page book titled The Homosexual Network which is filled with distortions and out right lies concerning gay people and our fight for equality.
In 1983 the FCF was promoting and distributing the faulty research search of Dr. Paul Cameron.
In particular the FCF was distributing a proposal by Cameron titled "The Model Sexuality Law"
A close examination of "The Model Sexuality Law" reveals it is the foundation document for anti-gay civil right measures which were placed on the ballot in Colorado as Amendment Two and in Oregon as Measure Nine.
The Gay and Lesbian community had to spend millions to over turn those two measure at the ballot box and in court.
Our community can
NEVER recoup enough money from the paltry grants Coors is attempting to make to community centers, pride parades etc., to repay the time and resources we had to spend on those two ballot measures alone!Oklahoma Legislator Bill Graves cites statistics from The Homosexual Network as reasons why "known homosexuals or lesbians" should be barred as teachers in Oklahoma’s schools.
Is William Coors, Chairman of the Board of all the various Coors corporations and enterprises, willing to publicly denounce such a law and then provide the money to the ACLU and the Lambda Legal Defense Fund to fight this unconstitutional law in court since he and his company helped fund the FCF when the book was written?
Offering domestic partner benefits to about 500 gay employees doesn’t offset all the past damage to the gay community and the future potential of thousands of gay and lesbian Oklahoma teachers losing their jobs because of the Coors funding of anti-gay organizations.
From: THE OKLAHOMA DAILY, April 13, 1998
University of Oklahoma
Point:
BILL GRAVES
The Oklahoma House of Representatives recently passed SB 1394 prohibiting individuals convicted of sexual misconduct or who engage in criminal sexual activity from being employed as support personnel (not teachers) at public schools. Businesses employing such individuals would be barred from contracting with public schools.
"Criminal sexual activity" in this case is "consensual sodomy" prohibited by Title 21 Okla. Stat. section 886. I offered an amendment, which passed by unanimous consent, to include "known homosexuals or lesbians" in the prohibition.
It is beyond reason why anyone who believes in morality and the rule of law would oppose this. Sodomy is a felony offense defined by 21 O.S. section 886 as "the detestable and abominable crime against nature, committed with mankind or with a beast."
That statute is based on the Bible, which consistently condemns homosexuality as a sin. Deut. 23:22; Rom. 1:27. Sodomy is practiced by 90 percent of homosexual men.
The 1948 Kinsey survey (Kinsey himself was bisexual) found than 37 percent of homosexual men and 2 percent of lesbians admitted sexual relations with children under 17 years old. Twenty-eight percent of homosexual men and 1 percent of lesbians admitted sexual relations with children under 16 years olds while they were age 18 or older. The Gay Report reported that 23 percent of homosexuals and 6 percent of lesbians admitted to sexual interaction with under 16-year olds.
Approximately one-third of child molestation reports involve homosexuality. The Kinsey study reported that 4 percent of the non-criminal white gays and 7 percent of the non-criminal white lesbians reported that they had their first homosexual experience with a "teacher or other caretaker." Perhaps SB 1394 should include teachers. It is the goal of groups like the North American Man-Boy Love Association to make pedophilia legal. Thus, employing gays puts youth
at risk.
Moreover, gays are perhaps the biggest disease-carrying group there is. They brought us the AIDS plague and the spending of billions of taxpayers' dollars to find a cure to enable them to continue their immorality. One study showed that 65.5 percent of gays had contracted gonorrhea; 52.5 percent hepatitis; 49.5 percent amebiasis; 40.8 percent genital warts; 39.7percent phthirius pubis; and 36.7percent syphilis. Here's why.
Some gays insist they "were born that way." Yet, there is no credible scientific evidence supporting this. Homosexuals are not born, but recruited. The Bible States that God created Adam and Eve (not Steve), i.e., man and woman. Eighty-two percent of lesbians and 66 percent of homosexual men said they had been in love with someone of the opposite sex. Many gays have given up that lifestyle and become straight. It is a matter of choice.
Gays contend they are "gentle, loving" people. However, a study of 518 sexually tinged mass murders from 1963 to 1983 showed that 68 percent of the victims were killed by gays -- a very high percentage for a group making up only 2 to 3 percent of the population -- not 10 percent as claimed by gays. Studies show a higher percent of violent sexual practice among gays. The average age of homosexual men is 39 years, and 45 years for lesbians. Thus, that lifestyle is actually a death style from which children should be protected.
The information contained herein is documented in Paul Cameron's The Gay Nineties and Enrique Rueda's The Homosexual Network. (emphasis JS)
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